Its perfectly sensible. Wearing Hi-Vis on a road march in peacetime is the smart thing to do. As it is when constructing a bridge in peacetime. You wouldn’t expect to see a building site worker without the proper PPE so why should a sapper do without? Are their lives worth less?

Well the US Army didn’t have a great day on D-Day, Omaha was always going to be tricky but had to be taken to link the sectors. The planners thought that Sword especially and Gold and Juno were better defended. Utah was a cakewalk in comparison but those operational failures made that almost farcical as well. The less…

It was one of those days when not much went right, either through bad luck or in the main poor training or execution by others than the men who actually landed. The DD’s which could have madethe difference were lost as a result of poor training and poor leadership. The majority of the DD’s used on D-day were dropped…

It’s got a BV though and that trumps a leatherman or Swiss Army knife!

Not in the line of fire they don’t. They have M9's and seem to be pretty impressed with this JCB back hoe..

The timelines were pretty short and Utah didn’t really have the defences that the 79th would have been useful for, Omaha beach’s steep bluff at the back may have negated some of their usefulness, though something would have been better than nothing. The US Army made a lot of questionable decisions for D-day like…

Here you go...it’s predecessor the Combat Engineer Tractor...only £18,000 barely used...

The UK invented the mine clearing line charge with some being used in the later stages of WW2. They were very dangerous in the early days however, being hoses that were pumped with Nitro Glycerine once the hose was laid. One prematurely detonated and caused over 60 deaths. Giant Viper was the version in use for…

See my post above. It’s actually not including the aircraft in the pool. These are operational, ready to go aircraft.

To be fair we dd have the assault lift in the Falklands. It just got destroyed. There was enough on the Atlantic Conveyor to do the entire lift. But we had a plan B thank god, and there was no other light infantry on earth who could have done that in 1982.

Used for training Harrier pilots before, but also used to simulate ASM’s and for other Naval warfare exercises.

Actually that graphic is fairly accurate. But is a little disengenuous. Only operational squadron allocated aircraft are depicted. Aircraft in the pools are not counted. There are at present for example:

Given that the Eurofighter was designed to defeat the Su-27 and all it’s successors you’d be right. The Typhoon would have an SU-35 for breakfast. In fact it will beat anything bar an F-22.

Never played Call of Duty.

Look at Navies, look at airpower, look at every measure.

And then NATO ends Russia...

Just look at the balance of forces. Even with cut backs over the last 15 years the difference is enormous.

Only the Turkish Air Force isn’t grounded is it....

Not really. How much can Russia actually deploy? They can’t move it all from the East.

The West has been training for, and successfully rolling back and destroying Russian air defence systems for 40 years.